HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
ERE are seven questions, one for each day of the coming week, and bearing on some item in one or other of that day's programmes which appear in this issue of The Listener. You can check up your solutions by referring to page 55, on which will be found the correct answers. SUNDAY: Which artist-composer as a boy aspired to be an organ-grinder and could play "Onward, Christian Soldiers" on the piano by ear before he could talk? MONDAY: Which artist was introduced to No. 1 grade radio by Rudy Vallee
after he had heard her singing at a local station, and made three attempts to get on pictures before she was suce cessful? TUESDAY: Which selection of national airs goes under the name of a vege=* table with strap-shaped, stronglye smelling leaves? ? WEDNESDAY: Radio audiences in the United States have repeatedly voted a certain artist their favourite violinist. Who is this player? THURSDAY: What artist is popularly... known through one of his "Preludes," which after being sold outright for four pounds, turned out a best seller, and | made a fortune for its publisher? FRIDAY: Who was it who sang the highest tenor note ever heard in Drury Lane Theatre? SATURDAY: A composer, on discovering that he was a doomed man and | would not live long, sat down and poured out his heart in a song which’ he dedicated to his fiancée, Phyllis" Dare. What is the name of the song?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 27
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246HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 27
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